Iss, the pandemic causes alcohol consumption at home to spike up to 250%

"The procurement of alcoholic beverages has not been interrupted during the lockdown period".

    Indeed, "the market has strengthened new alternative and even less controlled channels in relation to the prohibition of selling to minors", also changing "the habits of Italians". So much so that purchases on online e-commerce channels, for the alcoholic beverages sector "are estimated to have seen a surge in 2020 between 181 and 250% in home delivery, with an increase in registered domestic consumption". This is what emerges from the new data on alcohol consumption during the Covid pandemic, released to the Istituto Superiore di Sanità. 

Isolation, explains the ISS, has led to "an increase in uncontrolled consumption, also favored by digital aperitifs on chats and social networks, often compensating for the tension resulting from isolation, economic, work, relational and social problems. widespread fears among the population certainly made more fragile by the pandemic ". On the other hand, the alcohol services and the departments for addictions and mental health, due to forced closures, explains the ISS, "recorded a growth that was difficult to manage before, during and after the lockdowns due to the scarcity of resources. available, due to the amount of unanswered requests due to anti-Covid-19 restrictions and the unpreparedness related to digital solutions, only belatedly introduced ".